Bazil Shaikh Email & Phone Number

Bazil Shaikh, author and a former career central banker, served in different capacities with the Reserve Bank of India, including Secretary to the Bank. His work areas have spanned trade, exchange rate and reserve management, rural development, human resource management, strategic planning and governance, amongst others. As Regional Director for Uttar Pradesh and Uttrakhand headed the Bank’s operations in the two states. He had headed the team which conceived, researched and curated the Reserve Bank Monetary Museum at Mumbai. Having read Economics at the Gokhale Institute of Economics and Politics as well as Public Policy at the Princeton University, he served on several Committees of Government of India and the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) and was associated with projects funded by the Asian Development Bank. His doctoral thesis was on the Evolution of Modern Banking in India and he has authored several websites and publications, notably, the Paper and the Promise, Mint Road Milestones: RBI at 75, and The Conjuror’s Trick: An Interpretative History of Paper Money in India.